I plucked the outer right rectrix, thereby inducing the growth of a replacement. |
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Her blonde weave, plucked and meticulously painted eyebrows, bandana, kitschy makeup, and attitude exude hip-hop's aesthetic. |
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Entire packs of grey wolves have also been plucked from the Canadian outback and released in Yellowstone Park. |
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Today, they have the world at their feet after being plucked from the streets of Greater Manchester to become international models. |
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The pink, slightly knobbly skin of this species of seahorse has been rather unkindly, but accurately, compared to that of a plucked chicken. |
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The plucked guitar finally overtakes the melodic refrain near the end of the piece, eventually wiping the beginning from memory. |
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Fur is in, as are eyebrows plucked razor-thin and yappy little dogs which you can carry around in your shoulder bag. |
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It's a virtuoso performance full of muted notes, plucked resonance, bristling clusters, elliptical melodies, rolled chords and tremolos. |
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They were plucked from the river, clinging to one another and a life ring, by members of the Humber Rescue lifeboat. |
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Do you actually think his daughters would be plucked from the front row of an Armani runway show? |
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It is probable that Fortunatus was here alluding to different varieties of the same plucked string instrument, essentially a lyre. |
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The bassist's fingers at times became a blur as she plucked away at the strings like a madwoman. |
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The only other essential instrument is the tanpura, whose open strings are plucked continuously all evening, providing an organ-like background. |
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She brought him the bottle of TCP after all the stings had been carefully plucked out. |
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He quickly noticed the bags filled with orchids, which had been plucked from his park by the lanky guy now standing near a flatbed truck. |
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He plopped several maraschinos into the dollop of whipped cream, then plucked one out. |
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He plucked James from the ground swiftly, then turned and marched quickly over to the shattered window. |
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He plucked several throwing knives from his baldric and placed the blade of a long-bladed knife between his teeth. |
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He is a sensitive soul, plucked from the intellectual nursery of theatreland, totally at sea in this tough, artless world. |
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She seemed more amused as her perfectly plucked eyebrows raised, a small smile curving her mouth. |
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We've seen in the collapse of many technology companies that figures were plucked out of thin air. |
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The violent child, who couldn't have been more than four or five, was plucked from the group of children and a sharp command was barked. |
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This morning I was pawing through my jumbled collection of socks, looking for a match to an olive one I had already plucked from the drawer. |
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Once inside, things simply got worse for any shy, timid souls who plucked up the courage and made it past the front door. |
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Cohen saw potential in a beauty parlour where women could get make-up done, have eyebrows plucked or false eyelash extensions applied. |
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All day long, rescuers in boats and helicopters plucked bedraggled flood refugees from rooftops and attics. |
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The rondalla, a traditional music ensemble, consists of plucked and bowed string instruments to accompany social dancing and suitors' serenades. |
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Initially the armed forces said they have plucked all the 87 infiltration routes in various border areas of Jammu by heavily mining them. |
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A similar legend tells of a hungry bhakta who plucked a fruit and left it on the river bank while bathing. |
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Short-haired dogs require brushing while Terriers coats are plucked to remove dead hair. |
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Having plucked and trussed these long beaked birds, leaving the remaining entrails undisturbed, pull out the stomachs and intestines. |
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That is just what we did, for when the needle grew red I plucked it from the fire using tweezers, and dropped it into a scrap of thick leather. |
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Hovering only inches above the water, Sergeant Chip Sunier clambered out to the chopper's landing skids and plucked baby Alias to safety. |
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Slowly she reached over and plucked the bottle of nail polish from the desk. |
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His novel was plucked from the obscurity of the slush pile by the wife of his agent Luigi Bonomi. |
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When you add up the rest of the bits, an average bald, plucked, neckless, gutless chicken weighs about 4 pounds. |
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My favourite piece on the album is the title track, in which Frayne transforms sparsely plucked guitar notes into deep oscillating drones. |
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When infected flowers or leaves are plucked, a grayish-white cloud of fungal spores can usually be seen. |
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The ensuing Adagio with its long notes and plucked bass line made for welcome progress after a long first movement. |
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She plucked off her blindfold only to discover the blushing footman she had just embraced! |
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We plucked fresh figs, apples, plums and hazelnuts from trees heavy with crops. |
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She heaved herself out of the rocking chair and plucked the binoculars from the table. |
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A thought suddenly struck me as Matt plucked a tissue from the box and blew his nose. |
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This acts as a wonderful foil to the modal hymn tune with plucked strings in the bass attempting to calm matters down. |
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It was Pythagoras who was the first person to study the notes emitted by plucked strings of various lengths. |
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Even before the first guitar strings were plucked, Young made it clear that the spirit of Farm Aid was alive and well. |
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As for the title track, why not use plucked strings, craggy violin bowing, and rumbling xylophones to gleefully pervert the title's sentiment? |
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Other plucked instruments used reduced or expanded versions of French or Italian lute tablature. |
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The coffers were bare, with not a solitary cent left to rattle around them but money could, if absolutely necessary, be plucked from somewhere. |
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We strummed, plucked, whacked, and sang as best we could, given the hour and the quality of the coffee we had just sipped. |
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To the babysitter's probable surprise, her charge was plucked out of the crowd and cast as one of the chirpy orphans. |
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Warily she plucked a grape from the bunch and popped it in her mouth, chewing before swallowing. |
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Gone are the stylish wedding planners who once plucked out the excess baby's breath and saved you from unforeseen colour clashes. |
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I plucked a perfect white-and-purple passion flower from a vine growing up the wall of my house, and dropped it in her palm. |
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The large-scale operation went on for more than two hours as rescuers plucked the cocklers from the sands four miles from the coast. |
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On the album, the guitar picking is so precise that it demands that every painstakingly plucked note be closely listened to. |
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The strings are made of silk or nylon and are plucked by the artist with picks called plectrum attached to their thumb and first two fingers. |
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Two US Air Force pilots described how they were plucked from the desert after their F-14 fighter jet crashed in a ball of flames. |
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She sank back into the soft grass and plucked a snow white lily from it's stalk. |
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They strode past a cedar tree, and Caleb plucked several needles from a protruding branch. |
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He quickly kissed my lips and playfully plucked the carton of apple juice from my hand. |
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And boy, Steve reached down today and plucked it just like picking a flower. |
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After some consideration, Jane plucked a light green T-shirt from her closet, and pulled on her favourite pair of jeans. |
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I plucked at the sleeve of the jacket Roop had given me, trying to think of a change in conversation. |
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He shivered once or twice and plucked at the blanket and drew it close to his face. |
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Morgan plucked at his sleeve and they both sat down silently on the other bed. |
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He lowered himself into a chair and leaned back, stretching his legs out before him while he plucked at his lower lip in thought. |
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Wondering if Manda had left it there, he quickly plucked it from its constraint. |
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She looked down at her clothing and plucked at the wrinkles in her tee shirt. |
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He plucked at my elbow and we three retreated slowly, until the guard gave up and wandered away. |
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His graceful hands deftly plucked at various cables and wires, reconnecting, splicing. |
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Then it would be slaughtered, plucked and cleaned in time for dinner on the day itself. |
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My nails were cut and shaped, my eyebrows plucked and then a massage with sweet smelling creams. |
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Sarah flicked her hair over her shoulder and raised an immaculately plucked eyebrow. |
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My eyes are small like my dad's, and my eyebrows have been plucked much thinner than natural. |
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Her eyebrows are plucked and slender and brown like her natural hair color. |
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Martha had her eyebrows plucked in a rounded and shallow arch, which added to her beauty. |
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They contain kilometre-scale blocks of igneous basement rocks, plucked by the rising diapir from the footwall of the fault. |
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A bird plucked from an oil spillage has been returned to the wild next to a sewage plant. |
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The officer slung a rope around Ben's shivering body and plucked him to safety after a two-hour operation. |
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Dozens of cats and dogs, even snakes and exotic birds have been plucked to safety and taken to temporary shelters. |
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Crews plucked stranded villagers and tourists from rooftops and even the tops of cars. |
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I sat with the lute in my lap, trying to reach for forgotten notes as my fingers plucked the strings. |
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The whole room was silent while the guitar was still being plucked and a few other odd noises were involved. |
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That evening ended on a low chord with a little whimsical note plucked in the upper register. |
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With a deep breath, Jeananne plucked at her harp and sang a shrieking tune to the only audience member without the means to block out sound. |
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To her left was a plump of live ducks looking on and to her right a sack full of slaughtered, disembowelled, and plucked carcasses. |
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Pale French gendarmes, seemingly plucked straight from Paris point duty, look lost directing the coconut trees. |
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Often used to reclaim low fertility grazing, Soay are particularly unusual in that their fleece is plucked off rather than shorn. |
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Later, I learned how some believed a pomegranate and not an apple to be the fateful fruit Eve plucked from the tree. |
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He also plucked Lyn Tally from the corps de ballet to dance the principal role. |
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He sounded very sweet and down to earth so I eventually plucked up the courage to give him a call. |
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I plucked a stem of vale-lily and held its tiny white bells to my nose, inhaling the sweet fragrance. |
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They sport sulky plump pouts, heavy make-up, plucked eyebrows and slinky hips. |
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All game birds are despatched in cool boxes, plucked and dressed and vacuum packed. |
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The alcohol was so strong it was used for burning the stubble of plucked chickens and for Primus stoves and Tilley lamps. |
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Just an occasional dip in water keeps them looking almost as fresh as newly plucked, natural ones. |
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These Central Asian performers and singers play plucked and bowed lutes, dulcimers and drums. |
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In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. |
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His boot plucked one of the fiddle strings and a sound burst from the fiddle. |
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I casually plucked a few strings on the harp then strolled over to the harpsichord. |
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His mother sank back down onto the couch and plucked at the seat. |
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She plucked a large, cobalt-blue flower and tucked it behind her ear. |
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The rosebuds known as taifi to the locals are plucked when they have just opened up and before the sun's rays diminish the oils, which contain the essence of their perfume. |
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Her perfectly plucked eyebrows were knit together in a frown. |
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After showing promise, she was plucked out and sent to Bletchley to work in the research unit run by dilly Knox. |
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She even plucked bon mots out of the air, charming the men in dark suits with her sauciness. |
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She's a short, rather chubby woman who always dressed the same, in those long dresses and skirts that looked like she plucked them out of a reject bin. |
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As he spoke he plucked a solitary gold-fish squirming and twisting out of its globe. |
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Both the winged feathered kind, and the earthbound humanoids, waiting to be plucked. |
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She was plucked from relative obscurity to star alongside Billy Bob Thornton and Martin Freeman in the TV adaptation. |
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He plucked them and flushed the feathers carefully, so as not to block up the toilets and draw attention. |
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She plucked at the ribbon trim on her pillowcase and didn't reply. |
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He sat up and plucked a large ripe orange off the weighted tree. |
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In a second life-saving air-sea rescue, 16 Russian seamen were plucked from a 6000 ton cargo ship listing heavily in a force nine gale off the Devon coast yesterday. |
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We saw a much different image of the Iraqi leader when on camera, U.S. soldiers finally plucked him out of a spider hole after he'd spent months in hiding. |
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However, now that the low-hanging fruit has been successfully plucked the task of domestic growth is going to be that much more difficult for the superstore operators. |
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Riga grinned proudly and plucked at the sleeve of his shirt aimlessly. |
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When little Shona Ritchie plucked up the courage to ask for a peck from Prince William, the future king was happy to oblige. |
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While I was there I plucked up the courage to ask about a nose job. |
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When the bolt clicked on an empty chamber I automatically buttoned out the magazine, plucked a fresh one from my belt, and rammed it into the well. |
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She strode up to her daughter, and plucked at the pink blouse. |
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Since being plucked from local football on his native Merseyside, Townson has made remarkable strides in the past 12 months and has been capped by England at under-17 level. |
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The characters in Pitch Dark can seem plucked from this soapy version of reality. |
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Over two albums, the Books have plucked sampled voices from their original context and arranged them inside simple compositions for sliced-and-diced guitar, banjo, and cello. |
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He swooped down and plucked me off my feet, stepping onto the porch. |
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The pipa is a plucked string instrument with a fretted fingerboard. |
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She reached over and plucked a small grass blade from his hair. |
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Stretch was a bald chicken that Moose had plucked all the feathers off. |
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Finally he shook his head and plucked a stone from the ground. |
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The gentleman stooped down and plucked one of the blooms from its bed. |
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He reached across the table and plucked a cigarette from the open packet. |
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I sneered and scowled, windmilled and duckwalked, picked and plucked. |
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Solha was plucked off the streets of Kandahar City as a puppy by one of Jake's Afghan interpreters. |
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First came the second goal of the game, when he plucked his garryowen from the air and it was he who was left with the simple task of hitting the net from six yards. |
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The Hollywood star is happy to say yes if a man invites her out for dinner but during her last visit to Britain only two plucked up the courage to ask her on a date, she said. |
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He has plucked and strummed the strings of the electric guitar. |
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Two of the people rescued were plucked from near-death situations. |
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She cautiously plucked a blade of grass from the lawn, and scrutinised it. |
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She pulled a bent of grass and plucked off its dry spikelets one by one. |
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Red coffee berries are plucked from the tree and roasted on a griddle. |
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I've also plucked hair from my eyebrows but will not go into this. |
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Slightly surprised at that line of questioning I plucked at my jeans. |
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Foucan sees Free Running as more than a spectacle, it is a way of life, with a spiritual dimension plucked from popular culture and allowing an escape from everyday reality. |
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I could live without a leg wax and having my eyebrows plucked. |
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Print and online publications are ginned up to shine an anecdote, an experience, into a gem that will be plucked and dittoed through the social media. |
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A woman was plucked from a car seconds before it was engulfed in flames. |
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She popped the clasp on her clutch and plucked out her mobile phone. |
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His big break came in 1992 when an aging cardinal plucked him from his outback and persuaded the Vatican to make him a bishop. |
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Whilst we were sailing, a marmoset chanced upon the book, as it was negligently laid by, which wantonly playing therewith plucked out certain leaves, and tore them in pieces. |
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From the 1920s until the start of WWII a carnival queen was plucked annually from the town's prettiest girls and given a short spell in the limelight. |
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So when I tried them on, the cutest little Latino boy came and knelt in front of me and sort pinched and plucked at me, showing me where he'd take them in to fit me better. |
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She sighed again and plucked at a loose thread in her dress. |
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My mother often plucked me from unexpected places all over the palace and escorted me back to my room with a sharp tongue and a good whack on the ear. |
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National colourful costumes combine with the beat of percussion instruments and the plucked and bowed strings of India to bring the mini-fest to a kaleidoscopic end. |
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Forty-eight bodies have been plucked from the Java Sea and brought to Surabaya for identification. |
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He'd been plucked from obscurity and thrust into the national spotlight. |
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Alec Warner was gazing like a bird-watcher at Charmian, who plucked at the rug round her knees, waiting to tell her own story. |
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The dwarf plucked the bird from its cachette, throttled it with a twist of his knotty hands, and held it up for the gunman to admire. |
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Why is its bring an object to be perpetually plucked and pinched with dubby fingers? |
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He plucked a hash brown from her chest and popped it in her mouth before slurping several more into his mouth. |
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Sinars and his colleagues have now plucked from Z's X-ray deluge a grainy record of those wires' fates. |
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Paul Brannigan, 25, has won rave reviews since being plucked from obscurity to become a leading man by veteran director Ken Loach. |
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The kantele is a traditional plucked string instrument of the dulcimer and zither family native to Finland. |
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With tunes plucked from a twisted psychedelic era, the BJM experience was more than just one of this year's gigs to namedrop. |
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I plucked them from the crevice, hoping not to find a bent temple. |
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Young Lucius plucked a mournful dirge on the kithara and soon Drusus broke out his aulos. |
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The third trial session featured 28 no-names, people the court said had been plucked off the streets for rioting. |
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Their latest track starts off like a hymn, with handclaps for rhythm and a gently plucked acoustic guitar. |
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Brian Smith, from Wick, Caithness, died after being plucked from stormy seas by helicopter in a daring rescue bid. |
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People who are severely affected may need eyelashes plucked out at an opthamology clinic on a regular basis. |
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But when it is strung on a guitar, tuned, and plucked, the string forces the sides of the soundbox to vibrate at the same frequency. |
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Its energetic scribes, many plucked from conservative college rags like The Dartmouth Review, will leave no sacred liberal cow ungored. |
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Roman Savin and Vitaliy Karpenko were plucked from a liferaft by an RAF helicopter crew early on Sunday. |
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Amazingly, all three survived and were plucked to safety from the Skagit river before being taken to hospital with hypothermia. |
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Firefighters plucked the child from the top floor of the burning building. |
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Irishman Vincent Pilkington is the world's fastest turkey plucker at one minute and 30 seconds. He once plucked 244 turkeys in 24 hours. |
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The upper parts of the stems with the leaves are plucked off before harvest. |
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He grew thin and ribby, with narrow shoulders and a breast like a plucked chicken. |
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The sheep were caught and plucked, because shears had not yet been invented to cut the wool from the sheep's back. |
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The ALICE BAND member AMY BELLE was plucked from busking on a Glasgow street to performing with ROD STEWART at the Royal Albert Hall. |
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Finally, the counterman disappeared behind the curtain again and came back a few minutes later with a headless, plucked chicken. |
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When she was plucked from the chorus line to star in a television show she also suffered from anxiety, panic attacks and nausea. |
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The 29-year-old plucked squeaky-clean singer Joe Jonas from the audience and promptly gave the terrified-looking star a lap dance. |
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Radar man Graham radioes a lifeboat in the area and the divers are plucked to safety. |
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Sizhu ensembles use flutes and bowed or plucked string instruments to make harmonious and melodious music that has become popular in the West among some listeners. |
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Even in its moderate form, this argument presupposes that factual elements can be plucked out of panegyric as nuggets of truth isolated from the dross of empty verbiage. |
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It is plucked from the rocks and given a preliminary rinse in clear water. |
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Included in the seizure were dead and plucked barn owls, spotted wood owls, crested serpent eagles, barred eagles, and brown wood owls, as well as 7,000 live lizards. |
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When it is plucked from the tree, Norway maple exudes a milky sap from the leaf stem, which distinguishes it from the very similar Sugar maple, Acer saccharum. |
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Must we know the torrid zone only through travelled bananas, plucked too soon and pithy? or by bottled anacondas? or by the tarry-flavored slang of forecastle-bred paroquets? |
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The team found that assassin bugs plucked the web's silk threads that replicate the vibrations of a fly or other insect, causing the fooled spider to head towards the bug. |
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The strings of the kanun are plucked with fingerpicks made of tortoise shell or horn plectra which extend from each index finger and are held in place by circular metal bands. |
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There is a grand chandelier, fresh lilies in the window and a distressed antique dresser that looks like it has been plucked from a fin de sicle Provenale villa. |
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He was plucked out of his inspectorial duties by the Minister of the day to head a study which resulted in 1963 in the classic Buchanan Report, Traffic in Towns. |
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The enhanced, plucked, botoxed, tweezed, and altered images in lads' mags are selling superficial warped ideals of women and girls, invading and shaping how we view ourselves. |
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The Indic texts seem to form an achronic assemblage for him, with details sometimes plucked from relatively late practices whose antecedents were demonstrably different. |
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The following year, legendary producer and pop svengali Joe Meek plucked platinum blond bass player Heinz Burt from the band and launched him on a solo career. |
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The ukulele evokes images of simple, lilting melodies plucked by stocky entertainers in floral aloha shirts as lovers take moonlight strolls on a white sand beach. |
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Consisting of gongs, xylophones and drums accented by flute and plucked strings, a gamelan ensemble can feature anywhere from two to 35 musicians. |
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